Netgear WPN311 Madwifi WPA2 Configuration Help

On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 00:14:38 -0400
Grok Mogger wrote:

> Can anyone help me get started? I'm using the desktop
> install of Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft. I actually installed the
> Netgear card after I installed Ubuntu, if that might matter.

You're better off asking at the Ubuntu Forums. The web address for them is, http:/www.ubuntuforums.org . This is a Debian mailing list after all and Ubuntu seems to be diverging more and more from Debian with each release.

Anyway though you need to see first of all whether or not it's detected correctly. The output of the lspci and dmesg commands will tell you that. Also your card is one of the Atheros cards so it should be supported by the madwifi drivers. Try installing the 'linux-restricted-modules-xxxx' package via Synaptic, where xxxx is your Kernel image's name. If your card is correctly detected you can enable it in GNOME in the networking options in the system menu and the Gnome Network Manager should then connect fine.

That's all I can recommend really, I switched from Debian to Ubuntu about a year ago and have recently come back to Debian. Like I said though you'll be better off asking the on the official Ubuntu support channels rather than the Debian ones.

regards,

Ananda Samaddar

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Grok Mogger(linuximp@gmail.com) is reported to have said:
> Hey,
>
> I cannot get my wifi working at all. I have a Netgear
> WPN311. This is my first wifi experience on Linux, and between
> Madwifi, wpa_supplicant, network-manager, network-manager-gnome,
> wlanconfig, iwconfig, iwlist, /etc/network/interfaces/,
> /etc/default/wpa_supplicant, and god-knows-what else that I
> probably left out, I have no clue what I'm doing.
>
> My network is using WPA2, and is not broadcasting its SSID.
> But for starters, I'd like to try getting the card to just
> pickup the unencrypted, broadcasting wireless networks in my
> area. I know there are some nearby thanks to my Windows machines.
>
> Can anyone help me get started? I'm using the desktop
> install of Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft. I actually installed the
> Netgear card after I installed Ubuntu, if that might matter.
> This is a new system, so if a fresh install of a different
> distribution would make things easier, I'm all for it. I'd
> really appreciate it if someone could just help me understand
> how to set this up as painlessly as possible.

Before throwing out possibilities, (1) have you read the docs on the
madwifi site, and (2) did you read the section in the Compatibility
page for info on your WPN311?

Wayne

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